Red Schoendienst (Albert Fred Schoendienst) Quotes
I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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I choose to express myself.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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I have a love for boxing.
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I get that people want more diversity in TV and film, and I stand by that. I stand in solidarity with better diversity in TV shows, especially for Asian actors. I agree with that 100 per cent.
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In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.
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Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
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Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.
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I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.
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I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
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I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
